| mo | (noun) an indefinitely short time | Synonyms: bit, minute, moment, second |
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| moa | (noun) extinct flightless bird of New Zealand | - |
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| moan | (noun) an utterance expressing pain or disapproval | Synonyms: groan |
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| moaner | (noun) a person given to excessive complaints and crying and whining | Synonyms: bellyacher, complainer, crybaby, grumbler, sniveller, squawker, whiner |
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| moat | (noun) ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water | Synonyms: fosse |
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| mob | (noun) a disorderly crowd of people | Synonyms: rabble, rout |
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| (noun) an association of criminals | Synonyms: gang, pack, ring |
| (noun) a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities | Synonyms: crime syndicate, family, syndicate |
| mobcap | (noun) large high frilly cap with a full crown; formerly worn indoors by women | - |
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| mobile | (noun) sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents | - |
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| mobilisation | (noun) act of marshaling and organizing and making ready for use or action | Synonyms: mobilization |
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| (noun) act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: | Synonyms: militarisation, militarization, mobilization |
| mobility | (noun) the quality of moving freely | - |
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| mobilization | (noun) act of marshaling and organizing and making ready for use or action | Synonyms: mobilisation |
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| (noun) act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: | Synonyms: militarisation, militarization, mobilisation |
| mobocracy | (noun) a political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the masses | Synonyms: ochlocracy |
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| mobster | (noun) a criminal who is a member of gang | Synonyms: gangster |
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| mocassin | (noun) soft leather shoe; originally worn by Native Americans | Synonyms: moccasin |
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| moccasin | (noun) soft leather shoe; originally worn by Native Americans | Synonyms: mocassin |
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| mocha | (noun) a dark brown color | - |
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| (noun) a superior dark coffee made from beans from Arabia | Synonyms: mocha coffee |
| (noun) a flavoring made from coffee mixed with chocolate | - |
| (noun) soft suede glove leather from goatskin | - |
| mock | (noun) the act of mocking or ridiculing | - |
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| mocker | (noun) long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds | Synonyms: Mimus polyglotktos, mockingbird |
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| (noun) someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision | Synonyms: flouter, jeerer, scoffer |
| mockernut | (noun) smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut | Synonyms: big-bud hickory, black hickory, Carya tomentosa, mockernut hickory, white-heart hickory |
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| mockery | (noun) humorous or satirical mimicry | Synonyms: parody, takeoff |
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| (noun) showing your contempt by derision | Synonyms: jeer, jeering, scoff, scoffing |
| (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, sendup, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
| mockingbird | (noun) long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds | Synonyms: Mimus polyglotktos, mocker |
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| mod | (noun) a British teenager or young adult in the 1960s; noted for their clothes consciousness and opposition to the rockers | - |
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| modal | (noun) an auxiliary verb (such as `can' or `will') that is used to express modality | Synonyms: modal auxiliary, modal auxiliary verb, modal verb |
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| modality | (noun) a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment | - |
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| (noun) a particular sense | Synonyms: sense modality, sensory system |
| (noun) a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility | Synonyms: mode |
| (noun) verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker | Synonyms: mode, mood |
| mode | (noun) how something is done or how it happens | Synonyms: fashion, manner, style, way |
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| (noun) the most frequent value of a random variable | Synonyms: modal value |
| (noun) any of various fixed orders of the various diatonic notes within an octave | Synonyms: musical mode |
| (noun) a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility | Synonyms: modality |
| (noun) verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker | Synonyms: modality, mood |
| (noun) a particular functioning condition or arrangement | - |
| model | (noun) the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale) | Synonyms: modeling, modelling |
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| (noun) representation of something (sometimes on a smaller scale) | Synonyms: simulation |
| (noun) a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process | Synonyms: framework, theoretical account |
| (noun) something to be imitated | Synonyms: example, exemplar, good example |
| (noun) a representative form or pattern | Synonyms: example |
| (noun) a type of product | - |
| (noun) a person who poses for a photographer or painter or sculptor | Synonyms: poser |
| (noun) someone worthy of imitation | Synonyms: role model |
| (noun) a woman who wears clothes to display fashions | Synonyms: fashion model, manakin, manikin, mannequin, mannikin |
| modeler | (noun) a person who creates models | Synonyms: modeller |
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| modeling | (noun) the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale) | Synonyms: model, modelling |
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| (noun) a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied | Synonyms: modelling, molding, moulding |
| (noun) sculpture produced by molding | Synonyms: clay sculpture, modelling, mold, molding, mould, moulding |
| modeller | (noun) a person who creates models | Synonyms: modeler |
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| modelling | (noun) the act of representing something (usually on a smaller scale) | Synonyms: model, modeling |
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| (noun) a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied | Synonyms: modeling, molding, moulding |
| (noun) sculpture produced by molding | Synonyms: clay sculpture, modeling, mold, molding, mould, moulding |
| modem | (noun) (from a combination of MOdulate and DEModulate) electronic equipment consisting of a device used to connect computers by a telephone line | - |
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| moderate | (noun) a person who takes a position in the political center | Synonyms: centrist, middle of the roader, moderationist |
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| moderateness | (noun) quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes | Synonyms: moderation |
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| (noun) the property of being moderate in price or expenditures | Synonyms: modestness, reasonableness |
| moderation | (noun) the action of lessening in severity or intensity | Synonyms: mitigation |
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| (noun) quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes | Synonyms: moderateness |
| (noun) the trait of avoiding excesses | Synonyms: temperance |
| (noun) a change for the better | Synonyms: easing, relief |
| moderationism | (noun) the policy of being moderate or acting with moderation | - |
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| moderationist | (noun) a person who takes a position in the political center | Synonyms: centrist, middle of the roader, moderate |
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| (noun) a moderate drinker (as opposed to a total abstainer) | - |
| moderatism | (noun) a political philosophy of avoiding the extremes of left and right by taking a moderate position or course of action | Synonyms: centrism |
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| moderator | (noun) someone who mediates disputes and attempts to avoid violence | - |
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| (noun) someone who presides over a forum or debate | - |
| (noun) in the Presbyterian church, the officer who presides over a synod or general assembly | - |
| (noun) any substance used to slow down neutrons in nuclear reactors | - |
| moderatorship | (noun) the position of moderator | - |
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| modern | (noun) a typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes | Synonyms: Bodoni, Bodoni font, modern font |
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| (noun) a contemporary person | - |
| modernisation | (noun) making modern in appearance or behavior | Synonyms: modernization |
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| modernism | (noun) practices typical of contemporary life or thought | - |
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| (noun) genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres | - |
| (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernity, modernness |
| modernist | (noun) an artist who makes a deliberate break with previous styles | - |
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| modernity | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernism, modernness |
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| modernization | (noun) making modern in appearance or behavior | Synonyms: modernisation |
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| (noun) a modernized version (as of a play) | - |
| modernness | (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernism, modernity |
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| modestness | (noun) the property of being moderate in price or expenditures | Synonyms: moderateness, reasonableness |
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| (noun) freedom from vanity or conceit | Synonyms: modesty |
| modesty | (noun) freedom from vanity or conceit | Synonyms: modestness |
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| (noun) formality and propriety of manner | Synonyms: reserve |
| modicum | (noun) a small or moderate or token amount | - |
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| modification | (noun) the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment) | Synonyms: adjustment, alteration |
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| (noun) slightly modified copy; not an exact copy | - |
| (noun) an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another | Synonyms: alteration, change |
| (noun) the grammatical relation that exists when a word qualifies the meaning of the phrase | Synonyms: limiting, qualifying |
| modifier | (noun) a gene that modifies the effect produced by another gene | Synonyms: modifier gene |
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| (noun) a content word that qualifies the meaning of a noun or verb | Synonyms: qualifier |
| (noun) a person who changes something | Synonyms: changer |
| (noun) a moderator who makes less extreme or uncompromising | - |
| modillion | (noun) (architecture) one of a set of ornamental brackets under a cornice | - |
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| modiolus | (noun) the central conical bony pillar of the cochlea | - |
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| modishness | (noun) elegance by virtue of being fashionable | Synonyms: chic, chichi, chicness, last word, smartness, stylishness, swank |
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| modiste | (noun) a woman who makes or mends dresses | Synonyms: needlewoman, seamstress, sempstress |
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| (noun) someone who makes and sells hats | Synonyms: hatmaker, hatter, milliner |
| mods | (noun) a youth subculture that began in London in the early 1960s; a working-class movement with highly stylized dress and short hair; listened to rhythm and blues music and travelled on motor scooters | - |
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| modulation | (noun) the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect) | - |
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| (noun) (electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase | - |
| (noun) a musical passage moving from one key to another | Synonyms: transition |
| (noun) rise and fall of the voice pitch | Synonyms: intonation, pitch contour |
| (noun) a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified | Synonyms: inflection |
| module | (noun) a self-contained component (unit or item) that is used in combination with other components | - |
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| (noun) computer circuit consisting of an assembly of electronic components (as of computer hardware) | - |
| (noun) detachable compartment of a spacecraft | - |
| (noun) one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind | Synonyms: faculty, mental faculty |
| modulus | (noun) (physics) a coefficient that expresses how much of a specified property is possessed by a specified substance | - |
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| (noun) the absolute value of a complex number | - |
| (noun) an integer that can be divided without remainder into the difference between two other integers | - |
| mogul | (noun) a very wealthy or powerful businessman | Synonyms: baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, power, top executive, tycoon |
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| (noun) a bump on a ski slope | - |
| mohair | (noun) fabric made with yarn made from the silky hair of the Angora goat | - |
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| mohawk | (noun) haircut in which the head is shaved except for a band of hair down the middle of the scalp | Synonyms: mohawk haircut |
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| moiety | (noun) one of two basic subdivisions of a tribe | - |
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| (noun) one of two (approximately) equal parts | Synonyms: mediety |
| moire | (noun) silk fabric with a wavy surface pattern | Synonyms: watered-silk |
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| moistener | (noun) a device that dampens or moistens something | Synonyms: dampener |
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| moistening | (noun) the act of making something slightly wet | Synonyms: dampening |
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| moistness | (noun) a slight wetness | Synonyms: damp, dampness |
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| moisture | (noun) wetness caused by water | Synonyms: wet |
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| mojarra | (noun) small silvery schooling fishes with protrusible mouths found in warm coastal waters | - |
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| mojo | (noun) a magic power or magic spell | - |
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| moke | (noun) British informal for donkey | - |
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| moksa | (noun) (Hinduism) release from the cycle of rebirth | - |
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| mol | (noun) the molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams; the basic unit of amount of substance adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites | Synonyms: gram molecule, mole |
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| mola | (noun) among the largest bony fish; pelagic fish having an oval compressed body with high dorsal and anal fins and caudal fin reduced to a rudder-like lobe; worldwide in warm waters | Synonyms: headfish, ocean sunfish, sunfish |
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| molality | (noun) concentration measured by the number of moles of solute per kilogram of solvent | Synonyms: molal concentration |
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| molar | (noun) grinding tooth with a broad crown; located behind the premolars | Synonyms: grinder |
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| molarity | (noun) concentration measured by the number of moles of solute per liter of solution | Synonyms: M, molar concentration |
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| molasses | (noun) thick dark syrup produced by boiling down juice from sugar cane; especially during sugar refining | - |
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| mold | (noun) container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens | Synonyms: cast, mould |
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| (noun) sculpture produced by molding | Synonyms: clay sculpture, modeling, modelling, molding, mould, moulding |
| (noun) a distinctive nature, character, or type | Synonyms: mould |
| (noun) a dish or dessert that is formed in or on a mold | Synonyms: mould |
| (noun) a fungus that produces a superficial growth on various kinds of damp or decaying organic matter | Synonyms: mould |
| (noun) the process of becoming mildewed | Synonyms: mildew, mould |
| (noun) the distinctive form in which a thing is made | Synonyms: cast, mould, stamp |
| (noun) loose soil rich in organic matter | Synonyms: mould |
| moldboard | (noun) wedge formed by the curved part of a steel plow blade that turns the furrow | Synonyms: mouldboard |
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| moldiness | (noun) the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy | Synonyms: must, mustiness |
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| molding | (noun) a preliminary sculpture in wax or clay from which a finished work can be copied | Synonyms: modeling, modelling, moulding |
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| (noun) the act of creating something by casting it in a mold | Synonyms: casting |
| (noun) a decorative recessed or relieved surface on an edge | Synonyms: border, moulding |
| (noun) a decorative strip used for ornamentation or finishing | Synonyms: moulding |
| (noun) sculpture produced by molding | Synonyms: clay sculpture, modeling, modelling, mold, mould, moulding |
| mole | (noun) small velvety-furred burrowing mammal having small eyes and fossorial forefeet | - |
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| (noun) a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away | Synonyms: breakwater, bulwark, groin, groyne, jetty, seawall |
| (noun) a small congenital pigmented spot on the skin | - |
| (noun) a spy who works against enemy espionage | Synonyms: counterspy |
| (noun) the molecular weight of a substance expressed in grams; the basic unit of amount of substance adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites | Synonyms: gram molecule, mol |
| (noun) spicy sauce often containing chocolate | - |
| molecule | (noun) (physics and chemistry) the simplest structural unit of an element or compound | - |
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| (noun) (nontechnical usage) a tiny piece of anything | Synonyms: atom, corpuscle, mote, particle, speck |
| molehill | (noun) a mound of earth made by moles while burrowing | - |
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| moleskin | (noun) a durable cotton fabric with a velvety nap | - |
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| molestation | (noun) the act of tormenting by continued persistent attacks and criticism | Synonyms: harassment |
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| (noun) the act of subjecting someone to unwanted or improper sexual advances or activity (especially women or children) | - |
| molester | (noun) someone who subjects others to unwanted or improper sexual activities | - |
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| molindone | (noun) antipsychotic drug (trade name Moban) used in the treatment of schizophrenia | Synonyms: Moban |
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| moll | (noun) the girlfriend of a gangster | Synonyms: gangster's moll, gun moll |
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| molle | (noun) small Peruvian evergreen with broad rounded head and slender pendant branches with attractive clusters of greenish flowers followed by clusters of rose-pink fruits | Synonyms: pepper tree, Peruvian mastic tree, Schinus molle |
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| mollie | (noun) popular aquarium fish | Synonyms: molly |
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| mollification | (noun) the act of appeasing someone or causing someone to be more favorably inclined | Synonyms: pacification |
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| (noun) a state of being appeased or ameliorated or tempered | - |
| mollusc | (noun) invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | Synonyms: mollusk, shellfish |
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| molluscum | (noun) any skin disease characterized by soft pulpy nodules | - |
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| mollusk | (noun) invertebrate having a soft unsegmented body usually enclosed in a shell | Synonyms: mollusc, shellfish |
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| molly | (noun) popular aquarium fish | Synonyms: mollie |
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| mollycoddle | (noun) a pampered darling; an effeminate man | - |
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| mollycoddler | (noun) someone who pampers or spoils by excessive indulgence | Synonyms: coddler, pamperer, spoiler |
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| mollymawk | (noun) large web-footed birds of the Southern Hemisphere having long narrow wings; noted for powerful gliding flight | Synonyms: albatross |
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